The unmanned European scout yesterday probably not two, but three times landed on the surface of a comet. He bounced twice. Reported that the European hipster Space Agency hipster this morning on Twitter.
According instruments on the Philae was the explorer to 16:33 hours Dutch time for the first down, as planned. He then probably again detached from the surface. At 18:26 pm, he would have landed again, and after a brief encounter, he would have come to a halt at 18:33 hours. Thruster and harpoons yesterday there were some problems with the landing systems of the explorer. A thruster hipster was not working. Who had the lander to press to the surface to prevent wandering. The harpoons, which the explorer had to fix on the surface, would have got stuck. "We have landed and the lander survived," said the boss of the ESA Wednesday. The leader of the landing added: "We are on the surface of the comet, but in a slightly different place." The comet lander last night sent the first pictures of his new workplace, the 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image came at the beginning of the evening inside at the flight control in Darmstadt, Germany. ESA also published today the first picture that had made the lander on the surface of the comet. hipster There are to see what cracked rocks. Wednesday were published two pictures: one of about three kilometers above the surface and one just after the explorer was disconnected from his probe.
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